With training camp a little more than a month away, Indy Football Report Editor John Oehser will spend the final weeks of the off-season examining 21 questions about the Indianapolis Colts entering 2010 . . .
No. 3: Will RB Donald Brown move into a starting role?
We move today to the third part of this series examining 21 questions around the 2010 Indianapolis Colts, this one addressing what has been an oft-covered topic since the 2009 NFL Draft: When will RB Donald Brown start?
This off-season's answer? Not yet.
But we'll add that that's OK for all parties.
That will make the bulk of this entry about RB Joseph Addai, but that's OK, too, because the reality is that because of Addai, the Colts not only don't need Brown to start, but they may not really want him to start yet, either.
Brown, who the Colts selected with the No. 27 overall selection of the 2009 NFL Draft, led the nation in rushing at the University of Connecticut in 2008, when he was the only player in college football that season to rush for more than 2,000 yards.
When he was selected by the Colts, there was the automatic assumption among fans that if he didn't start immediately, he would so so by the end of his rookie season.
That didn't happen, and it didn't come close to happening, and there were a few reasons for that, mostly that Addai was better – and a lot more suited to the Colts' offensive scheme – than many fans realized.
Addai in the 2009 off-season was coming off a disappointing season. That, most Colts fans realized. But what most fans didn't realize at the time was Addai was injured most of that season and also was playing behind an offensive line that played through injuries much of that season.
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